Thursday, December 11, 2014

Back to the Classics Challenge 2015

Thinking I have room for another year-long reading challenge, I am joining this one. Many of my choices are surpluses from other challenges: if I had multiple books listed in a category, they were inserted here so that every book has a better chance of being read. I don't want any book to feel excluded, in case books have feelings.

19 comments:

Ruth, you wrote "Dracula by James Fenimore Cooper" for the 19th century category! :DGreat choices, by the way...For the play, if you don't feel like reading Shakespeare, may I suggest one of Oscar Wilde's? Importance of being Ernest is hilarious, or An Ideal Husband for its wittiness (and more conflict than Importance).

Opps! I had The Last of the Mohicans listed prior, then changed it. Thanks for catching it.

As for the plays: I did read the Importance of Being Ernest, and saw the film. I have to read it again for my WEM plays. I thought of listing it, but I wanted to do something different. Maybe I'll look into An Ideal Husband.

I need to find a place to put East of Eden. It's over 500 pages, so I have to keep it separate from Bleak House, if I choose to read it, which I do want to do. I may have to do it toward the end of the 2015 b/c Grapes of Wrath is over 600. I have to plan out my reads b/c I don't have a lot of time. : (

WITW is a fun read, and I want an excuse to read it to my younger ones. I had no idea it had some Odyssey effects. More of a reason to choose it b/c we are doing Greek history this year.

Great choices! I love Zola -- do you mean "The Fortunes of the Rougons"? Haven't read that one yet, but I've liked or loved nearly everything I've read by Zola. (Except Nana.) Bleak House and Persuasion are also favorites, and East of Eden is wonderful.

I'm also planning on something by Oscar Wilde, though I'm also thinking about Richard III.

When my 15-year old was in 4th grade, we read Secret Garden together, and I did love it. I dreamed of having a garden just like that one in the story. Of course, I live in the desert, so...that's that.

Oh good, so we'll be reading Persuasion together! I can't wait to read East of Eden but I'm not sure if I'll get to it this year. Robinson Crusoe is a great favourite of mine. You have a great list of books there. Now I have some more ideas for 2015!